Bethany Sandalls

Hairdressing and Beauty Therapy Combined Level 2 Diploma

I did my A-levels and everyone was going on to do degrees. I did my UCAS application and I felt I wasn’t ready for a degree yet, so I did a career quiz. It came up with jobs I should not do and one was make-up artist. I thought I would actually like that. I typed “makeup artist” into a search and found UCB.

My family was very supportive. I had mentioned about doing a course like this in the past and my dad said I should do my A-levels first.

I love the course. You get taught so much. I like the practical sessions. You have a whole day on practical and it is like you are working in a salon so it can be intense. I love the fact there are lots of internal and external competitions. It is really good experience and it helps you when you go out into industry. Competitions show your skills have been put through their paces.

I am going to go on and do a degree in Specialist Hair and Media Make-up. I want to work on film sets and on TV series and do make-up. I really want to go into prosthetics and do gory cuts and monsters.

"I love the course. You get taught so much. I like the practical sessions. You have a whole day on practical and it is like you are working in a salon so it can be intense."